Mekong Institute (MI), in close collaboration with the New Zealand Aid Programme (NZAP), launches the Regional Training Program on Agri-food Inspection and Audit today at the Mekong Institute Residential Training Center. The course, which is only fourth of the series of training programs organized under the Food Safety Project (FSP), is being held from June …
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Mekong Institute (MI), with the support from the New Zealand Aid Programme (NZAP), is organizing the Regional Training Program on Raising Public Awareness for Safe Food Consumption on July 24–28, 2017, at Mekong Institute in Khon Kaen, Thailand. The training program aims to introduce consumer engagement strategies that can be employed to promote safe food …
Mekong Institute, supported by the New Zealand Aid Programme, is going to organize Communicating Food Safety: Regional Media Training Program on Food Safety Reporting in CLMV on August 28–September 1, 2017 at Mekong Institute in Khon Kaen, Thailand. Full scholarships will be provided to about 20 media/communication professionals of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Viet …
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Mekong Institute (MI), with the support from the New Zealand Aid Programme (NZAP), is going to organize the Regional Training Program on “Mainstreaming Food Safety Risk Analysis” on July 10–20, 2017, at Mekong Institute in Khon Kaen, Thailand. The training program aims to enhance participants’ knowledge and skills in assessing, managing, and communicating food safety …
Mekong Institute (MI) successfully conducted a two-day Joint Synthesis and Evaluation (S&E) Workshop on “SME Cluster Development and Export Consortia Formation” and “Business Database Development in the Southern Economic Corridor (SEC)” from June 8-9, 2017 at its Residential Training Center. The workshop is part of the ongoing project on “Enhancing Competitiveness of Small and Medium-Sized …
Mekong Institute (MI) is organizing the Regional Modular Training on “Promoting Women Entrepreneurship for Export Business” on July 3-14, 2017 at the MI Residential Training Center, Khon Kaen, Thailand. The two-week training is part of the one-year capacity building and action research project on “Making Trade Work for Small Producers in Southeast Asia’s Least Developed …
Dr. Watcharas Leelawath, Executive Director of Mekong Institute (MI), and Ms. Maria Theresa Medialdia, Director of the Agricultural Development and Commercialization (ADC) Department, attended the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) at Thaifex 2017, which runs from May 31-June 4. Dr. Leelawath and Ms. Medialdia participated in the policy forum on “Greater Mekong Subregion as One: Regional …
This report looks at the role of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in facilitating both regional integration and local development in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS). The ADB defines an SEZ as a specific geographic region with economic laws that are more liberal than a country’s typical economic laws (ADB Trade Facilitation Report 2009, 132). Drawing …
Across the Mekong region, ‘development’ has become synonymous with rapid economic growth, to be achieved through predominantly large-scale, private investments. The development model promoted by the region’s governments prioritizes trade and investment liberalization, and privatization. Private investment is sought in virtually every sector of the economy from energy, oil, minerals, agriculture and food processing to …
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Mekong Institute (MI) successfully conducted the regional consultation on “Enabling Regulatory Environment for Facilitating Cross-Border Trade (CBT) on East-West Economic Corridor (EWEC)” in Bangkok, Thailand on May 29, 2017. The regional consultation is an integral part of the designed consultation process under the framework of the Regional and Local Economic Development Project on “Capacity Development …
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